Improvement in wall-protectors



iii-aiuti gittata BENJAMIN K. MALTBY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 108,497, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPRVEMENT iN WALL-PROTECTORS.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters atent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

y thereon.

The nature of my invention consist-s in the use of properly-shaped plates or sheets of metal, wood, pa-

pier mache, or other nmterialsufticiently thin and strong, with surface specially prepared by painting,v

japanning, varnishing, or otherwise, plain or ornamental, as thecase may be, and provided with a groove, gutter, or water-receptacle upon the lower edge of the same, constituting a wall-shield, for the purposes expressed above.

Y In the annexed drawing the general forms ot' the shield are shown, the letter A designating the general surface or face of the plates.

Figure 1 is aegis-shaped, the form most employed,

l Figures 2 and 3 showing simply variations ,in this respect.

1i marks the aperture through which any instrument of fastening is inserted into the wall when it is to be suspended; but the fastening may be from below by using the straps F, to be made of any length,

reaching the baseboard, or otherwise, as the case may require.

'lhe vital feature in the structureof this device is the groove or water-reccptacle, formed on the lower edge of the plate, marked Cr, the curve of which is shown more fully in vertical section, Figure 4. This gathers and holds the drippings that otherwise would trickle upon the walls, or down the furniture` placed in contact with it, and having sucient capacity for such accumulations, holding them till wiped up in spongiug oi the other parts of the shield.

The `material usually employed iu--its construction is sheet-iron, its surfaceusuallynnished by japam ning, and ornamented as'tast-e or the trade in the article may require.

I do not embrace in my device anything pertaining to the material employed, or general shape or form, or the modes of appending it to walls or furniture.

Vh'at I do clainras iuy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction of a shield, with a groove or waterrecept-acle on the lower edge, in the manner and for the purposes above set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

BENJ. K. MALTBY.

Witnesses:

CHAs. H. YOUNG, EMIL GOLDMAN. 

